Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier, California courts have been wrestling with whether to adopt the fe...
LOS ANGELES - John J. Quinn, a partner with Arnold & Porter, will receive Pepperdine University School of Law's Legal Hero...
Employment Law Practitioner Column - By Jennifer N. Lutz, This month, the U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult for employ...
Dicta Column - By Betty Morris, Whether and when to terminate one's employment or employee is probably the most difficult deci...
Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash, Winning negotiators know that dumb is sometimes smart. This may sound stupid, but the reas...
Judges and Judiciary
Liberal Groups Plan to Hammer Judicial Picks
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - As the Senate Judiciary Committee opens new hearings on President Bush's judicial nominees today, a coalition of ...
LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles is investigating whether New York-based Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Le...
LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Gordon will be in session soon at the airport court. "Yes, I've heard all the Batman references," D...
OAKLAND - Members of the Alameda County Bar Association thought enough of G. Judson Scott Jr. to make him the organization's p...
SAN FRANCISCO -Ten days before the end of 2001, thousands of documents began pouring in to the Oakland offices of the state at...
LOS ANGELES - One of the most respected veterans of the plaintiffs' bar in Los Angeles and one of its up-and-coming members re...
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for two leaders of the Jewish Defense League alleged Tuesday that a power-hungry member of the group fra...
LOS ANGELES - Loyola Law School professor and "quiet advocate" Gary C. Williams today becomes the first African-American presi...
Litigation
Enron Scandal Marks Newest, Most High-Tech 'Shreddergate'
By James Gordon Meek
WASHINGTON - The allegations are incredibly familiar. First, incriminating e-mails were deleted and sensitive documents shredd...
Forum Column - By Tad Daley, "We intend to find them," said U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his first public stat...
SANTA CRUZ - One episode best illustrates Judge John Salazar's approach to his job on the Santa Cruz County juvenile court ben...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether they have jurisdiction to revisit the apportionment appro...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Balances Scales of Justice With Care, Control
By Anne La Jeunesse
LOS ANGELES - A single mother sat at the plaintiff's table, hunched over a stack of handwritten legal documents. The woman, wh...
Transactional Law Practitioner Column - By Robert Maysey and Craig Miller, Enron's bankruptcy has prompted congressional leade...
WASHINGTON - As dozens of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters arrive at the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a political ...
LOS ANGELES - Expressing "grave doubts" over his power to rule, U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz on Monday agreed to hold a ...
SAN FRANCISCO -By an 8-3 vote, a federal appeals court has reinstated the ability of trial judges to increase prison sentences...
Personal Injury & Torts
Lawyers Say Ford Hid Safety Issue
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
BARSTOW - Ford Motor Co. was aware it had safety problems with the suspension design of its 1991 to 1994 Explorers but may hav...
SAN FRANCISCO - On a March evening last year, San Francisco prosecutor Jim Hammer reviewed the testimony heard by the grand ju...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff, Just when I thought that the Sept. 11 attacks and the war in Afghanistan had put the nonse...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge here late last year ordered the government to move ahead with deciding whether to grant protec...
SAN FRANCISCO -An Oakland activist group has filed suit against the state and Alameda County social services departments, clai...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four large Northern California law firms - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Heller Ehrman White & McAul...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Kevin V. Ryan's chances of getting the U.S. attorney job in San Francisco rose dramatically after Leslie...
Personal Injury & Torts
Jury Gives $3.7 Million to Girl Born With Defects
By Erin Carroll
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Friday awarded $3.7 million to a child born with spina bifida after finding...